📋 Tender Overview
The units provided the transport service informally and without providing minimal safety conditions. Five of these vehicles, with S/ 900,000 in fines, were destroyed today.The Urban Transport Authority for Lima and Callao (ATU), an entity attached to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC), has destroyed, so far this year, 107 vehicles with more than 35 years of age that provided the public transport service without complying with the minimum safety conditions, so they represented a danger to users.
The entity said that one of these vehicles was 48 years old; Five, 42 years of manufacturing, and another four were 41 years old. In addition, 11 were 40 years old, and the rest, between 35 and 39 years.
Five of these units were scratched today. This is the C9H-502 plate custer, 41 years old, which provided the service informally. To this are added the A8E-735, H1J-708, F3Q-191 and Z3Y-404 plate vehicles, which have a age of 40 and also performed the service without authorization. Together, all these units accumulated fines for S/ 900 000.
Sustainable scrap
So far this year, ATU has scratched 385 units, 201 more than scrap vehicles in 2024, when the figure of 184 was reached. By the end of the year, it is estimated to reach the goal of 500 units of informal transport destroyed.
The scrap of these informal public transport units is part of the ATU actions to guarantee the safety of public transport users and prevent vehicles from out of circulation can re -operate illegally.
With these actions, it reaffirms its commitment to the safety of passengers, the order in the urban transport system and the strict compliance of current regulations.
Lima, September 5, 2025
